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Chapter 274 The Lord's Mercy

Lance didn't notice this, he was busy.

This time it was a bit slower, and even Lance didn't use blessing enhancement on him, because when he recovered from the hidden injury, his body's potential was recovered by half, and according to the panel standard, he had reached [Elite].

Of course, this is just Lance's analogy with his own physique at the time, and people are different, so there is a gap between the same elites.

"My waist is no longer sore, my legs are no longer sore, and my eyes are no longer blurry... It feels like... I am back to my youth." Barristan still has a level of control over his body, and of course it is not the same as his experience. It is related to the enhancement of large-scale blessings.

"Leynard, come here." Lance looked worse than before, but he deliberately showed this state. Only in this way can he show that he has worked hard and not let the panel take all the credit.

"Loyalty!" Leonard knelt down in front of Lance, with a serious expression showing a capable temperament.

After feeling it for a while, Lance understood that Leonard's physique had definitely reached [Elite], and although he had a hidden injury, he was in his prime and had little effect, and he was in good condition.

Now Lance has estimated that unless he is promoted to [Master], it will be difficult to make a big improvement, but the problem is that he does not have so much spirituality, and the low-level upgrade is still within his range, but the required spirituality Too much.

Soon Lance had a plan to heal Leonard's hidden wounds, and then bless and strengthen him. At about the same time, he turned around and pretended to be exhausted.

His reaction frightened the others, and Desma hurried forward to support him, exclaiming, "Master, are you alright!"

"It's okay, it's just a bit exhausting, just take a break." Lance also took the opportunity to warn them, "Any extraordinary power has a huge price, you must be careful."

Leonard also stood up, and he could feel his body becoming light, as if he had worn armor for a long time and then suddenly took it off, and a wave of warmth nourished his body.

However, the appearance of the lord still let them know the price of strengthening.

The lord has paid too much for mankind...

Lance ended the secret meeting. Strengthening them had always been part of the plan, but the consumption was still a bit unbearable for him.

However, if he can control an elite army with all [elite] ranks, he may basically be able to walk sideways in this world.

Oh no!Isn't this the Church's [Holy Light Knights]?

Lance smacked his lips and found that there was a long way to go, unless he could sow spirituality like farming and harvest spirituality like cutting leeks.

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North of Hamlet, deep in the wilderness.

Geralt was hiding on top of a big tree with the canopy of the tree, only relying on the position constructed by a few branches to accommodate himself in it.

This is already his fourth day in the wilderness.

The terrain of the wilderness is destined to be inconvenient to bring radishes in, so he just entered it after completing supplies in the town.

According to the route given by the mission information, although Geralt did not enter the corrupted area, even the deformity and exuberance shown in the ordinary wilderness, as well as the twisted and weird environment made him feel great pressure.

I have been walking in the mainland for so long, and I have seen all kinds of strange geographical environments, but this place is the most weird and gives him the most pressure.

According to the guide, they quickly found the destroyed camp, and there were only burnt pieces left on it. However, the bones that the fire did not burn out inside were able to glimpse the sins that happened here.

At the same time, the situation here also made Geralt understand that the cult that the lord said was not fake.

Most of the surrounding traces were either destroyed or removed by fire, but his knowledge of tracking allowed him to capture some.

Someone has been here since the fire destroyed it!
According to this, he followed all the way up and finally found another camp, that is, as long as he leads the way, he can get ten gold coins.

It's just that this is not enough, because according to the mission description, he knows that there are other camps around, and he is still a little... Curious about the lord's description, or he doesn't believe it.

After traveling the mainland for many years, he will not blindly believe in others, he believes in himself more.

So they squatted around and waited for the camps to communicate with each other. Of course, they also had to spy on the secrets of the camps to see if they were really that evil.

And here he finally glimpsed the uncomfortable and indescribable scene...

The camp has generally passed through the initial chaos, that is, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled have passively "ascended", leaving only the strong and strong.

These guys fight during the day and continue to fuck at night, but it's just a physical fuck, the kind immersed in crazy carnality.

The winner of the day will enjoy the best treatment and become the protagonist of the developer conference.

After the blood ritual, the men became stronger and the women became more vigorous. They put themselves into multiplayer sports and enjoyed activities that they had never had before, which was what they wanted when they became refugees. Things that I dare not think about.

This is also the reason why cults can firmly grasp believers and drive them crazy.

But the price is that those women who have no self, they become toys, used to please the victors, and what is even more tragic is that they are brainwashed by the cult in this environment, making them completely without self-awareness, and even take the initiative to please the victors By.

Because the disobedient ones are right there, the losers of the day, with blood in the flagon and meat either on the grill or in the cauldron.

Geralt saw this scene through the dense canopy, and he understood why the lord had such a strong will to destroy this cult...

For two days, he squatted for two days, and today is the third day.

To be honest, he really didn't want to face this thing, he wanted to draw his sword and cut all these guys down, but he still remembered what the lord said, and he couldn't alarm the enemy, otherwise the cultists would run away.

Suddenly there was movement around, Geralt noticed it but didn't panic too much, just hibernate carefully.

It may be because one of the camps was raided and cleared, so these camps have all strengthened their defenses, and even released patrols and reconnaissance.

This was a situation that did not appear in the mission information, but these little Karamis did not bother Geralt, but he quickly figured out the patrol route and time.

It was precisely because of these people that Geralt immediately noticed that something was wrong. Those people were not on patrol.

Probe carefully, at this moment even a smile appeared on his weather-beaten face.

Finally, the wait came, it was the person who came to contact the camp...

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"Report to the lord that the man named Geralt has returned."

Hearing the voices outside interrupting Lance's work, he knew something was finally progressing.

He was a little excited for a while, and he didn't care about other work at hand, so he hurriedly got up and went to meet him, only to find that he came back from the old road.

This abnormal position made Xiu feel a little troublesome, but Geralt said it directly without stopping.

"I found the cultists, and indeed more than one camp."

Lance noticed Geralt's dignified expression, as well as the unintentional anger in his words, and presumably he had seen the methods of those guys.

"Come on, go back and talk slowly."

Geralt explained what he found without talking nonsense. He tracked for many days, but all he could find was a camp with about 100 people in it. The situation was simple and there was no protection except for a wooden fence.

He squatted for two days, and found nothing abnormal except for those distorted activities. Finally, on the third day, he found a group of people leaving the camp. For this reason, he followed up and found a group of people some distance away from the camp. field transaction.

As for the transaction object, it is a group of human beings.

Seeing this situation, Geralt did not go back to the camp, but followed the people who came to trade, and finally found a rather special place.

It was a seemingly normal town on the side of the dilapidated old road that had left the northern wilderness, but he discovered that the cult guys used that place as a transit to transport refugees.

Lance looked at the routes Geralt had simply drawn on the map, and this town that was highlighted reminded Lance of some bad memories.

The town where William was located was also preached by cults before, but their appearance directly wiped out those guys.

But there are too many small towns located in Hamlet, and it is very likely that some of them have already been controlled by the Ascension Sect.

The location of the town that Geralt pointed out is a bit subtle. Owen went to this town, then to those camps, and then extended to the old town of Hamlet.

It can be seen now that this is clearly a supply line, allowing the members of the Ascension Sect to bypass Hamlet by a small road, and this small town directly connects them as a node.

It must be destroyed!

"I can't wait any longer. I found this place because they escorted a new batch of refugees into the camp. I followed them to find the town. We must find a way to save them."

Geralt looked a little anxious, Lance looked at him like this, he didn't expect that there was a kind heart under the cold appearance.

This is so rare in this indifferent and hopeless world...

"I understand."

Lance also would not let go of any opportunity to attack the ancestor, he was even more anxious than Geralt.

Immediately convened the high-level officials in the town, explained the situation, and began to formulate tactics.

"Do you have any questions?" Lance said and looked at everyone.

"We need to confirm the authenticity of the information first. What if it is a trap? Most of the army needs to be transferred out. The risk we face is not small at all."

"That's right, the Ascension Sect clearly knew that we wiped out one of them, why didn't they move away? Instead, they continued to stay there. Aren't they afraid of our attack?"

"They must be prepared, it's impossible to just increase the patrol..."

Combat deployment cannot be done casually, and many aspects must be considered, but from their opinions, they all have a kind of distrust of the information Geralt brought back.

No wonder they, first of all, Geralt's origin is unknown, and secondly, the information is a bit too simple, which aroused their vigilance instead.

Geralt understood this too, but he didn't react too strongly, nor did he try to defend himself.

His experience in traveling the rivers and lakes told him not to get involved in power struggles. Demon hunters only have monsters in their eyes and do not participate in the secular world. This is the rule.

However, Lance made it clear to these doubts.

"First of all, I am willing to believe in our friend Mr. Geralt. As a master witcher, he will basically not be corrupted, and his professional ability is also trustworthy."

Lance didn't believe in Geralt blindly, but he had confirmed from Tamara and Junia that Geralt was indeed a very reputable witcher.

Their special physique makes it difficult for them to be corrupted. If they can perform a thousand-mile raid and almost be killed by a wizard, he can't help it. It can only show that you, the ancestor, are really awesome.

When Lance spoke, the others had no objections, and Geralt also noticed this, sensing the strength of the lord's control here.

He was ready to listen to their wrangling, and if they didn't do anything, then he planned to find a way to save people by himself.

But now it seems that the extermination of the previous camp was not a coincidence, and it must have been promoted by the lord.

"Don't worry about him so much, I can eat all those little shrimps by myself." Boudica just wanted to fight quickly at this moment, she was really bored squatting in the town.

But her words obviously have no right to speak, and everyone is still discussing the battle plan.

"The population of the town is estimated to be quite large. What will we do after we capture it? After capturing here, we will officially start a war with the Ascension Sect. Are we ready for a full-scale war?" Barton observed the simple map on the table.

The war he mentioned didn't simply mean the Ascension Sect, but he was worried that their drastic actions would draw the attention of Owendo City.

As long as you have a little brain, you can see the key position of this town. You can play a fool if you fight a few camps of the Ascension Sect, but once you do it, you will undoubtedly tear the last barrier between the two.

"It's not us, it's them who have torn apart a long time ago. Now the outside world is restless. If they want to fight us, they have to consider other forces, and they still don't care about us now."

Even if Owendo's senior management was corrupted by Ascension Cultists, it would not be so fast, because a group of cores were destroyed by him before.

The news brought back by Disma also further indicated that the situation of the empire would not be too good. Under the chaos spreading, those guys could protect themselves, but Lance didn't believe that he still had the energy to send troops.

If it is better to come out, he is confident that he can eat the city defense army in the field.

"The army we can use is only [-] at most. It is difficult to completely seal off a small town, and we can use the collective strength to resist the cultists in the battle of legion gatherings, but once we fall into street fighting, we will be divided and it is difficult to exert our strength."

Barristan's words did remind Lance that most of the soldiers might not be able to defeat the cultists who had undergone the flesh and blood ritual if they were really strong.

Not to mention trying to tell who is a cultist and who is an ordinary person among those among them.

Encirclement, suppression, guarding prisoners, etc. require troops, let alone 300 people, even if there are [-] people, they will not be able to withstand it.

"Keep no prisoners except high-value targets, cultists must die."

What he said obviously knew that Lance didn't plan to screen them slowly, nor did he plan to save those guys, but simply cut them across the board. As for the possibility of accidental injury, it was out of his consideration.

Those who do big things don't stick to small details. If he really wastes manpower and material resources on this, he will fall into the trap of old things.

His mercy is for the people, not for the cultists.

The only kindness he can give to those cultists is relief...

(End of this chapter)